Builds coming so fast I can't play one world long!

[Vexare]

It's probably just me, but every time I start the game and see that Tynan's put a new build out (seems like every other day now), I don't want to keep playing my current build and scrap it to download the new one. Never thought I'd complain about too many updates in a game - usually there's never enough in an alpha release! This speaks volumes for your wizardry Tynan, but when can we stop downloading the new ones and actually invest some longterm play in one build?!

[NoImageAvailable]

when can we stop downloading the new ones and actually invest some longterm play in one build?!

Well, he can't go further than A10z.

Unless he gives us A10za that is.

[board]

Just keep playing the same save file. [??!??!?!!]

[Vexare]

Just keep playing the same save file. [??!??!?!!]

It tells me the versions differ and I should not do that - do you not get that message when you load a previous build world over a newer build?

I don't like to 'test' builds mashed together so I prefer to start over with a clean slate because if a bug pops up, I can be sure it's the newest build I've installed and not some conflict with an older one.

[skullywag]

Take up modding. The whole playing thing is overated.

[Dave-In-Texas]

Just keep playing the same save file. [??!??!?!!]

It tells me the versions differ and I should not do that - do you not get that message when you load a previous build world over a newer build?

I don't like to 'test' builds mashed together so I prefer to start over with a clean slate because if a bug pops up, I can be sure it's the newest build I've installed and not some conflict with an older one.

well then, unfortunately you have two choices.  Wait a week or so from when the alpha is released to start playing  or ignore that message and try to keep playing... if nothing serious happens then cool.  its hard to say anything other than the obvious.. its alpha... lol

ps:  I did that with save game from 10d and it didn't break anything.

[Listy]

[...] or ignore that message and try to keep playing... if nothing serious happens then cool.

I tired that.
Then accidentally set the entire colonies outfit of "anything" to wear nothing. So the entire colony stripped off. So once I'd realised my mistake and undid it, they still wouldn't put any clothes back on.

[Dave-In-Texas]

[...] or ignore that message and try to keep playing... if nothing serious happens then cool.

I tired that.
Then accidentally set the entire colonies outfit of "anything" to wear nothing. So the entire colony stripped off. So once I'd realised my mistake and undid it, they still wouldn't put any clothes back on.

lol. thats quite a bug.  reminds me of when my nephew refused to wear clothes, hehe.

[Vexare]

well then, unfortunately you have two choices.  Wait a week or so from when the alpha is released to start playing  or ignore that message and try to keep playing... if nothing serious happens then cool.  its hard to say anything other than the obvious.. its alpha... lol

ps:  I did that with save game from 10d and it didn't break anything.

Well right, I get that and I'm cool with it. The post was more of a nod to Tynan on how rapidly he's changing / fixing things lately than an actual complaint. Since I really don't want to get any mismatched version bugs, I'm going to wait until he slows down a bit on the rapid build changes before I invest any long-term colony building hours. I'm playing around with the changes to see what everything does for now.

[Tynan]

You can keep playing your old save, it should be fine between hotfixes of the same alpha.

[Vexare]

You can keep playing your old save, it should be fine between hotfixes of the same alpha.

Cool thanks for that heads up! I can stop worrying I'll break the game loading all your mini-builds one over the next. Awesome job on all the new stuff btw. I was a big advocate of adding a morale system and I'm so glad you created all the cool ways for the colonists to have a little fun instead of just being mindless worker ants.

[Silvador]

I got those "different version" messages too. Just assumed it was from the current version detecting that the save file was created by an earlier version, and not that it would create incompatibility issues. As Tynan said above, old files from A10 still work with the newer versions, as said in the patch notes.